Have you never seen the sign that most businesses have displayed somewhere "We reserve the right to refuse service for any reason."? Businesses are are private property and they can prevent you from coming onto their property at any time for any reason. A business is no different than a private dwelling in this regard. I know because at a cafe I used to work at, I personally had to 86 a few jackasses, and get trespass charges against them. If they were ever to come back after being told they were not allowed there anymore,(and one of them did) all I had to do was call the police and have them arrested (which I did). They funny thing was, the guy I had arrested (in case you are wondering he deliberately pissed all over the bathroom floors/walls, and constantly bothered our regulars and said some pretty sexually crude things to a female co-worker of mine) was saying the same thing you were - "This is a public place, and you can't have me arrested just for being here!" Guess who was wrong and went to jail? The weird thing is, I know the cops explained all of this to him earlier, why he didn't believe it I have no clue.
If the public can see your house from the street, I don't see the problem with Goggle taking a picture. If you never wanted anyone to see your house, move to a remote area and put up a big fence/bushes/trees/ etc. or buy a big enough plot of land that your house can't be seen from public space. However, I do believe that any homeowner should be able to request that their picture be removed (at a certain zoom level).
Better yet, take a picture of your house yourself, and then copyright that image. When Google publishes your copyrighted work, you can then sue them!
I am fairly certain there is delay in the imaging, and that the images are not "live" by any means but merely older images. If I do a Google view of my house, it it from the middle of summer, and the 2 feet of snow is mysteriously absent. But on the other hand, if Google satellite imaging can pick up photos like that, anyone else can too. I know the military has lots of ways of not having things detected by satellites, so I'm sure if they really didn't want those planes to be seen, they wouldn't have been seen.
Quite the opposite. The snowjob artists knows it is all bullshit, and can charge whatever he wants for his "expertise". Both parties involved know it is a crock and that they are buying an "expert opinion".
I think I just did. As a personal example, when I ran an apartment rental business, I incorporated. That way my own personal assets were protected, and I could only be sued for what the business had in assets. If that isn't a huge protection for "The People" I don't know what is. You see, corporations are made up of "The People", and most corporations in the US are small businesses and not huge conglomerates.
As far as the IRS is concerned, a corporation is a person. That is the whole reason for incorporating - so when someone wants to sue, they sue the corporation instead of you personally. You can only sue other "people", and not intangible things.
"It's kind of like that old quote about porn - "I can't define it, but I know it when I see it".
Most people know that its certain "areas" being exposed (3 total for women, 2 for men)."
An image of a naked person is not automatically "pornography". I would hope that "most people" would know that also. Otherwise a lot of medical texts and artbooks are peddling smut.
I always though the difference between "basement" and "cellar" was that to go down to the basement all you need to do is walk down the stairs inside your house. Going down to the cellar would require going outside and around back to the cellar doors. (Completely unscientific theory though I must add.)
And the flooding issue isn't as bad as most make it sound. A small sump pump or two and you won't have to worry about that much. My house is on a small rise with all sides of the house grading down away from my house, and I have never so much as had a drop of flood water in my basement, and my house was built in the 1920s.
My basement has windows. (A basement isn't 100% under the ground, only like 2/3 or 3/4) It is even possible to have full size (egress) windows if you just dig out a little around the windows. I also have an extra bedroom in my basement, which adds to the value of my house. While I do use my basement for some storage, i also have my laundry room, workshop area, and extra bathroom in my basement as well. Construction-wise, it may be cheaper to add up rather than go down. But all homes where I live (Midwest USA) are generally built with basements. It doesn't cost much more when you already have to dig down for the foundation of the house anyways. But the biggest advantage to underground rooms are heating/cooling costs. It is much cooler in the hot summers here in the basement (naturally 15 degrees or so Farenheit cooler on really hot days) and is a great place to put computer/electronics or anything that gives off a lot of heat.
Not get caught apparently. Or walk everywhere, or take a bus if planning on doing anything illegal. Shouldn't be a problem as I mostly bus everywhere already.
Software's CPU/RAM demand scales to hardware capabilities. The same applies to cheap storage space, and the size of applications. It really isn't that shocking of a concept. I remember when most applications would fill less than 50% of a floppy disk. Hell, I remember my first hard drive - 20 MB (IIRC, I think I paid about $275+ for it). I put everything I owned on it and only managed to fill up 12 MB or so. The times they are a changin' my friend.
But the confiscation occurs at the time you are charged with a crime (or sometimes when you are arrested), not convicted. Why is this aspect of the law seem to be "guilty until proven innocent" when our very justice system is supposed to be based on the opposite?
"I don't know any doctor who's gonna say to you, "oh, you're not feelin so great? Here, just smoke this joint, yeah, yeah, that'll make you feel better.""
You may want to unbury your head from the sand. Those exact words have been said to thousands of terminal cancer patients (marijuana has positive effects for treating the side effects of chemo/radiation treatments - a powerful anti-nausea, and also an appetite stimulant, as well as gentle non-opiate based pain killers) and also AIDS patients on drugs that have nausea/loss of appetite side effects. Your statement is most telling in that you first state you don't agree to the "culture" part of marijuana. People like you are against something, so in your mind nothing positive can ever come of it, no matter what the facts say. Great attitude. So do you drink alcohol or smoke tobacco? Do you have a problem with them being legal? Because those two drugs kill and do far more harm than marijuana ever could. Your "shoehorn" theory is also full of holes. Can you please cite somewhere that marijuana has been legalized only to be followed by "cocaine, LSD, and heroin" also being legalized? No, real nice. Before you write off any uses for marijuana, do yourself a favor and do a little independent research of your own before just copping the stupid bumper sticker slogans of the anti-drug crowd. Your statement about marijuana being "poison" is also inaccurate, as there is no such thing as a lethal dose of marijuana, and there has never been a death attributed solely to marijuana use. Remember - just because you personally don't agree with something doesn't automatically invalidate facts.
"One MORE thing: anyone wanna tell me why I gotta type in letters from picture that has a jagged line in it? What's a "script"?
In case you really want to know and aren't just continuing your trolling, it is called a "captcha" and it is to verify that you are indeed a real human being (in a loose sense of the word) and not a computer generated "script" to do things such as post crappy advertisements, or fill up genuine discussions with goatse/minicity, or other asinine posts.
Didn't hourly rates suck? Although I will say (now that the statutes of limitations have long passed) that large phone bills from calling out of state BBSs was what led to my, ah "knowledge", of how the phone systems worked. Didn't have any big phone bills after that. But calling cool boards, especially ones with the latest warez, was a big part of my motivation.
You are correct, but as the light we are seeing from the star right now also traveled the same distance. It could have shot out a gamma ray 7,999 years ago and we could be toast within the year. I am no scientist either, but I figure both light waves would travel at the same speed.
I think you missed the mmorpg part of his post. (AFAIK not too many mmorpg games were made for the Commodore 64 - like none. The games you refer to are single player games.) NWN on AOL was the only reason I had signed up for AOL. There was a cool mmorpg back in the day on Compuserve, but the graphics were ascii and that was when Compuserve charged by the hour. I played all night one evening and when the $50 Compuserve bill came later that month, the parents were mighty pissed.
"It's true that MS is sellng Macs by proxy than I think it realizes. Given the choice of Vista or 'anything else' then people are taking the second option."
Actually given the choice, more people are choosing XP than OS X. I don't really think MS is in panic mode seeing as XP is still a MS product.
I never stated that SDI had no direct applications. I just believe that it was far more politically motivated than applicable technology driven. And after all it had a great deal to do with the end of the Cold War, which I believe was it's primary objective (and possibly it's only objective).
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"we know of hacks that allow Mac OS X to run on Intel chips"
Umm, you are aware that all the new Macs are running Intel chips, right?
They don't own a satellite (yet), but they do have ground crews taking pictures for the "street view" part of their mapping.
Have you never seen the sign that most businesses have displayed somewhere "We reserve the right to refuse service for any reason."? Businesses are are private property and they can prevent you from coming onto their property at any time for any reason. A business is no different than a private dwelling in this regard. I know because at a cafe I used to work at, I personally had to 86 a few jackasses, and get trespass charges against them. If they were ever to come back after being told they were not allowed there anymore,(and one of them did) all I had to do was call the police and have them arrested (which I did). They funny thing was, the guy I had arrested (in case you are wondering he deliberately pissed all over the bathroom floors/walls, and constantly bothered our regulars and said some pretty sexually crude things to a female co-worker of mine) was saying the same thing you were - "This is a public place, and you can't have me arrested just for being here!" Guess who was wrong and went to jail? The weird thing is, I know the cops explained all of this to him earlier, why he didn't believe it I have no clue.
Then I would just trademark the image of my house and nail them for trademark infringement.
If the public can see your house from the street, I don't see the problem with Goggle taking a picture. If you never wanted anyone to see your house, move to a remote area and put up a big fence/bushes/trees/ etc. or buy a big enough plot of land that your house can't be seen from public space. However, I do believe that any homeowner should be able to request that their picture be removed (at a certain zoom level).
Better yet, take a picture of your house yourself, and then copyright that image. When Google publishes your copyrighted work, you can then sue them!
I am fairly certain there is delay in the imaging, and that the images are not "live" by any means but merely older images. If I do a Google view of my house, it it from the middle of summer, and the 2 feet of snow is mysteriously absent. But on the other hand, if Google satellite imaging can pick up photos like that, anyone else can too. I know the military has lots of ways of not having things detected by satellites, so I'm sure if they really didn't want those planes to be seen, they wouldn't have been seen.
Quite the opposite. The snowjob artists knows it is all bullshit, and can charge whatever he wants for his "expertise". Both parties involved know it is a crock and that they are buying an "expert opinion".
I think I just did. As a personal example, when I ran an apartment rental business, I incorporated. That way my own personal assets were protected, and I could only be sued for what the business had in assets. If that isn't a huge protection for "The People" I don't know what is. You see, corporations are made up of "The People", and most corporations in the US are small businesses and not huge conglomerates.
As far as the IRS is concerned, a corporation is a person. That is the whole reason for incorporating - so when someone wants to sue, they sue the corporation instead of you personally. You can only sue other "people", and not intangible things.
"Define how you can tell the difference between a real expert and a snowjob artist."
Their fee.
"It's kind of like that old quote about porn - "I can't define it, but I know it when I see it".
Most people know that its certain "areas" being exposed (3 total for women, 2 for men)."
An image of a naked person is not automatically "pornography". I would hope that "most people" would know that also. Otherwise a lot of medical texts and artbooks are peddling smut.
I always though the difference between "basement" and "cellar" was that to go down to the basement all you need to do is walk down the stairs inside your house. Going down to the cellar would require going outside and around back to the cellar doors. (Completely unscientific theory though I must add.)
And the flooding issue isn't as bad as most make it sound. A small sump pump or two and you won't have to worry about that much. My house is on a small rise with all sides of the house grading down away from my house, and I have never so much as had a drop of flood water in my basement, and my house was built in the 1920s.
My basement has windows. (A basement isn't 100% under the ground, only like 2/3 or 3/4) It is even possible to have full size (egress) windows if you just dig out a little around the windows. I also have an extra bedroom in my basement, which adds to the value of my house. While I do use my basement for some storage, i also have my laundry room, workshop area, and extra bathroom in my basement as well. Construction-wise, it may be cheaper to add up rather than go down. But all homes where I live (Midwest USA) are generally built with basements. It doesn't cost much more when you already have to dig down for the foundation of the house anyways. But the biggest advantage to underground rooms are heating/cooling costs. It is much cooler in the hot summers here in the basement (naturally 15 degrees or so Farenheit cooler on really hot days) and is a great place to put computer/electronics or anything that gives off a lot of heat.
Not get caught apparently. Or walk everywhere, or take a bus if planning on doing anything illegal. Shouldn't be a problem as I mostly bus everywhere already.
Software's CPU/RAM demand scales to hardware capabilities. The same applies to cheap storage space, and the size of applications. It really isn't that shocking of a concept. I remember when most applications would fill less than 50% of a floppy disk. Hell, I remember my first hard drive - 20 MB (IIRC, I think I paid about $275+ for it). I put everything I owned on it and only managed to fill up 12 MB or so. The times they are a changin' my friend.
But the confiscation occurs at the time you are charged with a crime (or sometimes when you are arrested), not convicted. Why is this aspect of the law seem to be "guilty until proven innocent" when our very justice system is supposed to be based on the opposite?
And Jesus, please watch out for Mrs. O'Leary's clumsy cow.
You forgot to mention your LaserDisc player also.
"I don't know any doctor who's gonna say to you, "oh, you're not feelin so great? Here, just smoke this joint, yeah, yeah, that'll make you feel better.""
You may want to unbury your head from the sand. Those exact words have been said to thousands of terminal cancer patients (marijuana has positive effects for treating the side effects of chemo/radiation treatments - a powerful anti-nausea, and also an appetite stimulant, as well as gentle non-opiate based pain killers) and also AIDS patients on drugs that have nausea/loss of appetite side effects. Your statement is most telling in that you first state you don't agree to the "culture" part of marijuana. People like you are against something, so in your mind nothing positive can ever come of it, no matter what the facts say. Great attitude. So do you drink alcohol or smoke tobacco? Do you have a problem with them being legal? Because those two drugs kill and do far more harm than marijuana ever could. Your "shoehorn" theory is also full of holes. Can you please cite somewhere that marijuana has been legalized only to be followed by "cocaine, LSD, and heroin" also being legalized? No, real nice. Before you write off any uses for marijuana, do yourself a favor and do a little independent research of your own before just copping the stupid bumper sticker slogans of the anti-drug crowd. Your statement about marijuana being "poison" is also inaccurate, as there is no such thing as a lethal dose of marijuana, and there has never been a death attributed solely to marijuana use. Remember - just because you personally don't agree with something doesn't automatically invalidate facts.
"One MORE thing: anyone wanna tell me why I gotta type in letters from picture that has a jagged line in it? What's a "script"?
In case you really want to know and aren't just continuing your trolling, it is called a "captcha" and it is to verify that you are indeed a real human being (in a loose sense of the word) and not a computer generated "script" to do things such as post crappy advertisements, or fill up genuine discussions with goatse/minicity, or other asinine posts.
Didn't hourly rates suck? Although I will say (now that the statutes of limitations have long passed) that large phone bills from calling out of state BBSs was what led to my, ah "knowledge", of how the phone systems worked. Didn't have any big phone bills after that. But calling cool boards, especially ones with the latest warez, was a big part of my motivation.
Yeah, but at least you have learned to love the smell of your own farts.
You are correct, but as the light we are seeing from the star right now also traveled the same distance. It could have shot out a gamma ray 7,999 years ago and we could be toast within the year. I am no scientist either, but I figure both light waves would travel at the same speed.
I think you missed the mmorpg part of his post. (AFAIK not too many mmorpg games were made for the Commodore 64 - like none. The games you refer to are single player games.) NWN on AOL was the only reason I had signed up for AOL. There was a cool mmorpg back in the day on Compuserve, but the graphics were ascii and that was when Compuserve charged by the hour. I played all night one evening and when the $50 Compuserve bill came later that month, the parents were mighty pissed.
"It's true that MS is sellng Macs by proxy than I think it realizes. Given the choice of Vista or 'anything else' then people are taking the second option."
Actually given the choice, more people are choosing XP than OS X. I don't really think MS is in panic mode seeing as XP is still a MS product.
I never stated that SDI had no direct applications. I just believe that it was far more politically motivated than applicable technology driven. And after all it had a great deal to do with the end of the Cold War, which I believe was it's primary objective (and possibly it's only objective).